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Back to EpisodesBusiness Burnout Recovery: Letting Go of a Team and Rebuilding Better | Amy Stout
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What do you do when your six-figure business looks great on the outside and you're falling apart on the inside? Amy Stout took a sabbatical, lost her biggest clients, let go of her whole team while pregnant, and rebuilt a simpler business that now earns more with half the expenses.
If your business was built in a way that runs you into the ground, I help you rebuild the systems so it doesn't: https://www.lindspaulson.com
IN THIS EPISODE
- Landing her first client by cold pitching 10 influencers: email, a personal video, and a follow-up
- How a virtual assistant business grew by referral into a six-person team
- Why highly customized services are hard to scale
- Burnout that showed up in her body: fatigue, eczema, asthma, and more
- Taking a seven-week sabbatical, and coming back to clients leaving
- Finding out she was pregnant, and deciding to let go of her entire team
- How one client's advice led to a new ads offer that signed four clients in a month
- Expenses cut in half and profit tripled after the pivot
- Why pivoting is a skill, not a failure
ABOUT AMY
Amy is a mom, entrepreneur, and the host of The Peaceful Entrepreneur, a podcast about building a business (and a life) that doesn't burn you out. She runs ABIDE Outsourcing, an ads agency serving Amazon influencers.
CONNECT WITH AMY
The Peaceful Entrepreneur: https://www.thepeacefulentrepreneur.com
ABIDE Outsourcing: https://www.abideoutsourcing.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyamyelizabeth/
ABIDE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abideoutsourcing/
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Linds Paulson is the founder of Sunday Ops Co. She helps busy women business owners build simple systems so their business feels easy like Sunday.
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